Notes on Contributors
Rebecca Aanerud is Affiliate Assistant Professor in Women Studies and Acting Assistant Dean in the Graduate School at the University of Washington. Her research addresses issues of racism, whiteness, and feminist theory, and issues associated with graduate education and career paths of doctoral recipients. She is author of "Fictions of Whiteness: Speaking the Names of Whiteness in U.S. Literature," in Displacing Whiteness: Essays in Social and Cultural Criticism (Duke, 1997); "Now More than Ever: James Baldwin and the Critique of White Liberalism" in James Baldwin Now (NYU, 1999); "Thinking Again: This Bridge Called My Back and the Challenge to Whiteness" in This Bridge We Call Home (Routledge, 2002). (raan@u.washington.edu)
Amy Allen is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Women's and Gender Studies at Dartmouth College. She is author of The Power of Feminist Theory: Domination, Resistance, Solidarity (Westview, 1999) and The Politics of Our Selves: Power, Autonomy, and Gender in Contemporary Critical Theory (Columbia, forthcoming). (Amy.R.Allen@dartmouth.edu)
Alison Bailey is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Women's and Gender Studies Program at Illinois State University. Her philosophical interests are largely motivated by questions of social justice. She is the author of Posterity and Strategic Policy: A Moral Assessment of U.S. Strategic Weapons Options (University Press of America, 1989), and the coeditor of Community, Diversity, and Difference: Implications for Peace (Rodopi, 2002). Her writing on privilege, responsibility and resistance has appeared in Hypatia; Journal of Social Philosophy; Whiteness: Feminist Philosophical Perspectives; Feminist Ethics Revisited; Decentering the Center: Philosophy for a Multicultural, Postcolonial and Feminist World; and Race and the Epistemologies of Ignorance. Her textbook The Feminist Philosophy Reader, coedited with Chris Cuomo, will be available from McGraw-Hill in fall 2007. (baileya@ilstu.edu)
Cathryn Bailey is Professor and Chair of Philosophy at Minnesota State University-Mankato, where her work focuses on feminist philosophy, especially ethics and epistemology. Her most recent publications address animal ethics and have appeared in Ethics and the Environment. (bailey@mnsu.edu)
Linda A. Bell is Emerita Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Women's Studies Institute at Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia. [End Page 218] In addition to feminist theory, she has taught, written, and published in the areas of existentialism, ethics, and continental philosophy. Her publications include: an anthology of philosophers' statements about women, Visions of Women (Humana, 1983); a development of an ethics from the writings of Jean-Paul Sartre, Sartre's Ethics of Authenticity (Alabama, 1989); and an existentialist feminist ethics Rethinking Ethics in the Midst of Violence: A Feminist Approach to Freedom (Rowman and Littlefield, 1993). She co-edited another book with David Blumenfeld: Overcoming Racism and Sexism (Rowman and Littlefield, 1995). Most recently, she published Beyond the Margins: Reflections of a Feminist Philosopher (SUNY, 2004), largely dealing with various aspects of her own experience, mostly in academe, and the role this experience plays and ought to play in her philosophizing. (lbell@gsu.edu)
Aimee Carrillo Rowe is Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and POROI (Project on the Rhetoric of Inquiry) at the University of Iowa, where her teaching and writing address the politics of representation and feminist alliances, third world feminism, and whiteness and antiracism. Her Power Lines: On the Subject of Feminist Alliances (Duke, forthcoming), offers a coalitional theory of subjectivity as a bridge to difference-based alliances. Her writing appears primarily in interdisciplinary outlets, such as Radical History Review, NWSA Journal, and Intercultural and International Communication Annual. (aimee-carrillorowe@uiowa.edu)
Ellen K. Feder teaches philosophy at American University. She is coeditor of "The Family and Feminist Theory," a special issue of Hypatia (1996); Derrida and Feminism: Recasting the Question of Woman (Routledge, 1997); and The Subject of Care: Feminist Perspectives on Dependency (Rowman and Littlefield, 2003); as well as a textbook, A Passion for Wisdom: Readings in Western Philosophy on Love and Desire (Prentice Hall, 2004). Her book, Family Bonds: Genealogies of Race and Gender, is forthcoming from Oxford University Press in 2007. (efeder@american.edu)
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